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Competency-based education

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Competency-based grading is a rising trend, and Moodle has taken this into consideration. Competencies can be added by your institution and then easily incorporated into and assignments or assessments in order to track student progress.

- [Instructor] One of the recent releases of Moodle…made competencies easy to track inside of the platform.…This is especially important to anyone…using competency based education.…In Moodle, it's now easy to link competencies to a course,…and then link them to activities within the course.…Competencies must be loaded into Moodle…by your institution or a system administrator.…If you have competencies added,…let's quickly check out where they'll be.…On the left hand side of the page,…if this navigation menu is dragged out,…there will be a link for competencies.…

I'll click here, and as you can see,…I don't have any competencies that appear,…and that's because my institution…does not have any preloaded.…If they did have them, but they were not yet added…to my course, I could go ahead…and add the desired competencies.…I could click add competencies to course.…I could search for them in here,…and then add them to my specific course.…Now it is possible that you have permissions…to manage competencies and frameworks…

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1/31/2017

Take a deep dive into Moodle and explore the features of this ever-popular, free learning management system (LMS). In this course, education expert Oliver Schinkten shows how to create an online course, highlighting some of the features that are new to Moodle 3.2 along the way. He explains how to construct a course in which students can access resources, submit assignments, take assessments, join online discussions, and more. He explores how to start with a blank course shell, and then customize it for a specific course by adjusting the layout, adding resources, and including activities. Plus, Oliver goes over some best practices—such as saving a backup of your course—to help you get the most out of Moodle.